Camp Speicher massacre

The Camp Speicher massacre occurred on 12 June 2014 after the Islamic State abducted between 4,000 and 11,000 unarmed Iraqi Army cadets from Camp Speicher, an army base near Tikrit, Iraq. The soldiers were ordered to take a 15-day leave to return to their families, but they were intercepted by Islamic State fighters on buses as they left the camp. The soldiers were taken into IS captivity, and the Islamic State singled out Shia Muslim soldiers for execution. Around 1,700 Iraqi soldiers were executed, with many of them being shot one at a time and dumped in the Tigris River, or they were forced to lay down in heaps and then gunned down by the militants. In August 2016, 36 men were hanged for their roles in the massacre at Camp Speicher, one of the Islamic State's most infamous atrocities during the Iraqi Civil War.